If you ever saw a person die of AIDS you know that this person did not die because the CDC in America invented the disease for money, that is so ridiculous. The main cause for HIV/AIDS is ignorance and in countries where campaigns were successfully conducted to educate people the infection rate has dropped to "insignificant".

To claim that the pharmaceutical indstry is not interested in finding a cure is just as stupid as cynical: a pharmaceutical company finding a cure for AIDS would make billions from this cure and/or vaccination. The fact that Africa is now the continent with the worst AIDS rate only shows that lack education and knowledge avoids to beat the virus. Claiming that HIV and AIDS do not really exist is just telling people to die of ignorance. The only appropriate answer to HIV/AIDS is relentlessly campaigning for people to protect themselves. Anything else is irresponsible and plain stupid.

What you say about Freddie not having been tested is just plain wrong. He was tested twice and he was infected. It does not matter where he was infected and how many sexual partners he had - nobody deserves to die that way and nobody has the right to blame the disease on the victims.

This reminds me of the Christine Maggiore movement and documentary that the Foo Fighters were associated with because of their well meaning but impressionable bass player. Her rap was that HIV did not cause AIDS and that AZT was what sickened and killed. She refused the treatment both for herself and her tiny daughter who contracted it during or shortly after birth. Naturally, they both died. Well done mom. These things read exactly like the 911 conspiracy theories. A bunch of of isolated facts that are correlative at best strung together in what is only very superficially 'logic', ironically equally appealing to the credulous and paranoid both.

I think we need to take it easy on MEDUSA RULES. I think I may have figured it out, but a few of you are not reading it's posts too closely. Thankfully, I am here to do that and interpret the life of one "MEDUSA RULES".

First off, it's not "Medusa". The MED stands for "Meds"... it gets them from the USA because our Meds are far superior to the ones from other less fortunate countries. So, in fact, his user name is a ringing endorsement.

You might notice some jibberish, from time to time, but that's only because it's time for another dose.

Remember what Brian said... "AIDS affects us all". We should really be offering uplifting words of encouragement for MEDUSA RULES during these difficult times. I will be your defender, MEDUSA RULES. The rest of you just leave him/her alone. He/She is not an animal...

In exchange, MEDUSA, would you allow me exclusive rights to the following AIDS questions post mortem?

1. How much weight did you lose? 2. What were your last words? 3. Who was in the room when you passed? 4. What song did you right about your disease twenty years ago? 5. How did you get "it"? 6. Were you really gay?

Having an opinion is not against Queenzone rules and the IP addresses are protected.

As to the detrimental effect of AIDS medication, mainly AZT: It is well possible that AZT does have a bad impact on the overall health of the patient but that is certainly true for chemotherapy, as well. To say that AZT killed Fredie Mercury is certainly not true - he already had symptoms when medication started and he died after stopping taking medication - there is not the slightest proof that AZT was in any ways a cause of his death but he did have AIDS related symptoms, so he most probably died of them. I have an issue with the hostility of such discussions. If you see someone suffer you simply do not want scientists and self-appointed experts fight with such ideologically blinded hatred - you want people to work together on curing or at least controlling the disease. Much progress has been made with anti-viral therapy and hopefully more progress will be made in the future. We have no cure for cancer yet and nobody blames it on an alleged hidden agenda of the pharmaceutical industry. There is no cure for diabetes yet but people can get old with proper insulin therapy. Compared to diabetes AIDS is a new problem and people can already live with it. The goal must be to erase it and there are good chances to reach that goal if we address the issue with common sense.

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